Tag Archives: fantastic-four

Fantastic Friday: Voting in the negative

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Writer Jonathan Hickman’s cosmic mega-epic has ended, but there are still some details to follow up on, most notably Johnny becoming ruler of the Negative Zone during the time everyone thought he … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Celestial mechanic

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Writer Jonathan Hickman’s years-long mega-epic finally comes to a close in Fantastic Four #604. Was the journey worth it? Gimmie a gimmick: The cover sports an Avengers vs. X-Men logo in the … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Twice the F

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. We’re in the middle of some of the most ambitious – and most bewildering – run of issues the series has ever done. Buckle up. In what has got to be one … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Do the wave

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In between issues #11 and #12 of the rebooted FF, we went back to the original Fantastic Four title for the big 50th anniversary issue #600. Gimmie a gimmick: Starting with this … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Oops all villains

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Time to start breezing through the rest of Jonathan Hickman’s run multiple issues at a time, with FF #8-11. Fantastic Four’s “lost years” in the 1970s is where things got all confusing … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Kree will rock you

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Here’s FF #7, the second half of an extended flashback that… Oh, I just can’t.   Recap: Two issues ago, the conflict between four recently-discovered lost civilizations was complicated by four evil … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: King me

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. Is Black Bolt your favorite Marvel character? He’d better be, because FF #5 all about him. Recap: Four evil alternate universe versions of Reed, of the interdimensional Council of Reeds, are running … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: The real Defying Gravity

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #5, writer Jonathan Hickman continues tying things together and connecting all the dots with everything he’s set up. Recap: The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with around twenty … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Dr. StrangeReed

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. In FF #4, we have a meeting of the minds and a city under attack. Where were we? The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with close to twenty members, most … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Fantastic Friday: Very varied and various variants

Reading the Fantastic Four comics from the start. FF #3 continues writer Jonathan Hickman’s sprawling epic take on the series, but is there such a thing as too epic? Recap: The Fantastic Four is now the Future Foundation, with a … Continue reading

Posted in Fantastic Friday | Tagged , , | Leave a comment